Thinking of going single up front ?

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  • YeehaaMcgee
    YeehaaMcgee Posts: 5,740
    deadkenny wrote:
    YeehaaMcgee wrote:
    I've said it before (particularly in reference to singlespeeds), and I'll say it again. If you think that limiting your choice of gears causes you to gain fitness, you're delusional
    Try it.
    There you go again, insisting that people join your little Surrey hills clique. Why should I? I don't live anywhere that could be described as remotely flat, and I use the full range of gears.
    deadkenny wrote:
    each time I ride the 2x10 I love the bike but keep thinking the front mech is a pain in the ars*
    Delusional, like I say. How is the front mech a pain in the arris if you can manage in the mid ring, without changing the front at all?
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    edited August 2012
    YeehaaMcgee wrote:
    Delusional, like I say. How is the front mech a pain in the arris if you can manage in the mid ring, without changing the front at all?
    Over rocks, bump, bump, bump, bugger, the damn thing has dropped onto the granny again. Frequent experience of mine amongst a number of other technical issues. Though to be fair the 2x10, maybe specifically SRAM, has had a number of issues raised about this. Just had to sort mine out to get decent tension to stop it doing it (and I run a chain guide). I'm finding a small amount of chain wear, far less than you'd usually replace a chain for, is enough to cause hassles. Oh and the 2x cage is narrower and rubs the chain frequently once the front mech goes out of alignment, which it does often.

    Did I say I hate front mechs? :D
    YeehaaMcgee wrote:
    There you go again, insisting that people join your little Surrey hills clique. Why should I? I don't live anywhere that could be described as remotely flat, and I use the full range of gears.
    Didn't say anything about Surrey, though it's not as flat as you think. But when I do go 1x10 on the Nomad it will be going round Welsh mountains as well.

    And anyway, if you're spinning away like nuts to climb something savage at 1mph... just get off and walk! :P
  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    I kind of enjoy the steep technical bits (as long as they're not too long) and therefore love my granny.
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  • YeehaaMcgee
    YeehaaMcgee Posts: 5,740
    If you can't pedal your bike up a hill, then walking it with your bike isn't going to be any faster.
    It sounds like you're just a terrible bike mechanic, my main bike has 2x9 gearing, and it's never dropped the chain. You ineptitude with a spanner doesn't mean that anyone else should limit their bike's ability.
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  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    Now now kids, play nice. Different strokes and that...

    It works for some, not for others. Like rigid forks, hardtails, SPDs etc. Myriad reasons for this: bike choice, fitness, local riding, attitude, riding style etc. not sure why this topic specifically breeds such heated discussion!
  • YeehaaMcgee
    YeehaaMcgee Posts: 5,740
    It gets heated because we have the same old same old - people advising others to change their setup for absolutely no benefit.
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  • lawman
    lawman Posts: 6,868
    It just wouldn't be right if we all got along nicely though :lol:
  • YeehaaMcgee
    YeehaaMcgee Posts: 5,740
    I'll get along nicely with YOU in a minute.
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  • paul.skibum
    paul.skibum Posts: 4,068
    DK sounds like he needs a dual ring chain guide - that's what I run on my 2x9 and it keeps my chain in place better than the chain guide on by 1x9 setup (somehow the chain keeps esscaping from the chain guide on my big hit - the gap between the top guide and the bash guard is a couple of mm and yet you hit a cople of successive roots and it jumps out somehow - then I have to stop, split the chain at the powerlink, reloop it - pain in the behind!)
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Got a dual ring 2x10 X-Guide. Keeps the chain on the rings, but doesn't stop the big dropping to the little ring. Very much depends on the chain tension though. As I mentioned, slight slack due to wear after a few months and it starts dropping. Shiny new chain set to correct length for a full sus, mechs all serviced, and sure enough it's holding fine now. That's what I did before. Give it a few months and it's slack again and dropping.

    But anyway, it's irrelevant as I missed the issue of the OP in the first place which it seems he wonders if he should go single ring because he's always in the granny and thus should he just have the granny alone as a single, right?

    And we were getting along fine. I wasn't making it personal, just a debate and me getting the wrong point of the thread and wading in with my reasons for going single rather than his needs, so I'll go away now.
  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    It gets heated because we have the same old same old - people advising others to change their setup for absolutely no benefit.

    Agree, but it seems to happen more (and both ways) with this than with any of the other 'controversial' topics.

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